PixelArt production record "snow station"(1/6) (Patreon)

Hi, I made "PixelArt  production record 01".

This is a $4 article on shopify (from today 18:00 JST~)

But we will translate it into English and publish it in 6 articles on patreon. 

This is a patron benefit.

I will be posting the first chapter, "Until I Started Drawing Dot Paintings.

This is a readable The technical discussion begins at part 3/6.

Reason: English translation takes time. Patron benefit is needed. I do not yet have a standard to distinguish patrons by amount, etc.

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PixelArt  production record "snow station"(1/6)

Introduction

This is the first time to present my production record.
While following the production process of the GIF shown below, I will talk about techniques and myself.
I aimed to write an article that would be useful for those who want to learn pixel art and enjoyable for those who are not interested in pixel art.
It's a long article, but feel free to read it.

First, let me tell you the configuration.
"1 How I came to draw this pixel art." It is just like a travelogue, so you can skip it.
Technical topics are written from "2 Let's draw a pixel art".
EDGE2 is not a required soft though some part explains how to use EDGE2. Any dot editor is ok that can make animation.

◆ 1 How I came to draw this pixel art.

◆ 1-1 Unknown route.
When going to Tokyo, I take the high-speed bus or the Joban Line limited express "Hitachi" that stops at Iwaki Station. It is the closest central station to my home. When I get on the Joban Line, I can see the Pacific Ocean from the train window. In the past, I went to the sea by a regular train on the Joban Line, but only a few times.

When I was a teenager, I loved biking, and I used to ride it everywhere I went. I once ran away from home on a road bike called the Giant Escape R3, which I had just bought, and went to Tokyo.
On the other hand, railways were unfamiliar to me because I was not very good at systems, such as ticket gates. When I was a child, I loved railway books and models, but I forgot about that as a teenager.

For me like that, Iwaki Station was only recognized as "going to Tokyo, looking at the sea, how long will it continue to the north?"
In the passage of Iwaki Station, there are some blue guide signs meaning platforms of the Joban Line. I imagined it was blue of the sea without permission.

Since the spread of IC cards named Suica, my weakness in railways has diminished. However, at that time, I left my hometown and lived in Tokyo, Kyoto, and the Kii Peninsula, so I still didn't have the opportunity to use Iwaki Station actively.

When I was 28 or 29 years old, I lived in a shabby house in the mountains of the Kii Peninsula. One day I received an email saying that my father was in a critical due to stomach cancer. I had to return home, taking 10 hours to Iwaki Station.

Though I liked railways and used to draw them a lot at that time, it wasn't a lot of fun sitting down on the train for a long time. So I was exhausted when I arrived at Iwaki Station.

When I was stretching before exiting the ticket gate, I found a dark red guide sign that I hadn't noticed before behind the blue guide sign. It says "Ban'etsu East Line".

I already knew that there was a line from Iwaki (seaside) to Aizuwakamatsu (mountainside). However, I didn't have the image I could get on the line from Iwaki station. Aizuwakamatsu is located in the inland area of

Fukushima prefecture and is a city with a lot of snow.

At that time, I immediately forgot about the Ban'etsu East Line at a funeral or something, but I remembered it later because I wanted to see the snowy landscape.
Iwaki doesn't snow much because it faces the Pacific Ocean.
I wanted to see the snow before the end of winter, so I boarded the Ban'etsu East Line on the last day of February 2022.